Can I Make The Universally Useful Blue Cheese Dressing Without Brown Sauce?

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Nigella's Universally Useful Blue Cheese Dressing (from KITCHEN is, as the name suggests, a blue cheese salad dressing that can also be used as a dip, a filling for baked potatoes, a sauce to accompany cold meats or any other way you may like to eat it. The richness of the blue cheese is cut with a combination of Worcestershire sauce, brown sauce, buttermilk and apple cider vinegar.

Brown sauce is a sweet and tangy sauce made with tomatoes, malt vinegar, molasses, tamarind, dried fruits and spices. It is popular in the UK and steak sauce is a similar product in the US. Tonkatsu or Pickapeppa sauces could also be used as alternatives. However, if you don't have a brown sauce in the fridge or cupboard then you can either just omit it from the recipe or, to add a little extra sweet and tart to the dressing, you could replace it with ½ teaspoon of runny honey and ½ teaspoon of lime juice.